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I get between nine and ten ho...

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Houston is undoubtedly my sho...

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

All architects want to live b...

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

There's no worse feeling than...

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

It is wonderful to be in the c...

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I haven't any wisdom - just a ...

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I think the collectors have ma...

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

So now the floodgates are open...

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

To me, the drive for monumenta...

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

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Processionalism is primary - h...

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at...

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

In my own work, I'd say I'm a ...

In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

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I like to be buttoned onto tra...

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

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How does an artist know when t...

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

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Anybody can build a building, ...

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a ...

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

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I hate vacations. If you can b...

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

All architects want to live be...

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Some of the opera houses in It...

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

The automobile is the greatest...

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....